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Friday, September 19
September 19, 2008

Artifacts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were unearthed over the summer at Mt. Visocica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the medieval town of Visoki was located.  Businessman Semir Osmanagic has tried to convince many that the mountain was Europe’s first pyramid. James Barrett, deputy director of Cambridge University’s McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, has […]

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Thursday, September 18
September 18, 2008

A well-preserved Viking shield was found near Viking-age castles in Denmark. The shield is made of wood and is thought to have been made in the late tenth century. Eight sets of human remains buried with pottery, beaded ornaments, and food were found near the Niah Caves in Malaysia. The bones are between 2,000 and […]

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